Talks by José M. Manzano

King's College London

Jun14201611:30

A Killing submersion is a Riemannian submersion from an orientable 3-manifold to an orientable surface, such that the fibres of the submersion are the integral curves of a Killing vector field without zeroes. The interest of this family of structures is the fact that it represents a common framework for a vast family of 3-manifolds, including the simply-connected homogeneous ones and the warped products with 1-dimensional fibres, among others. In the first part of this talk we will discuss existence and uniqueness of Killing submersions in terms of some geometric functions defined on the base surface, namely the Killing length and the bundle curvature. We will show how these two functions, together with the metric in the base, encode the geometry and topology of the total space of the submersion. In the second part, we will prove that if the base is compact and the submersion admits a global section, then it also admits a global minimal section. This gives a complete solution to the Bernstein problem (i.e., the classification of entire graphs with constant mean curvature) when the base surface is assumed compact. Finally we will talk about some results on compact orientable stable surfaces with constant mean curvature immersed in the total space of a Killing submersion. In particular, if they exist, then either (a) the base is compact and it is one of the above global minimal sections, or (b) the fibres are compact and the surface is a constant mean curvature torus.

On the area growth of constant mean curvature graphs in \(\mathbb{E}(\kappa,\tau)\)-spaces.

King's College London

Oct16201511:30

In this talk we will discuss some estimates for the extrinsic area growth of constant mean curvature graphs in the simply-connected homogenous 3-manifolds \(\mathbb{E}(\kappa,\tau)\), whose isometry group has dimension at least 4. Such estimates follow from analyzing the height that geodesic balls reach in \(\mathbb{E}(\kappa,\tau)\), and will allow us to give sharp upper bounds for the extrinsic area growth of distinguished families of constant mean curvature surfaces such as invariant surfaces, complete graphs and \(k\)-noids. Finally we will focus on the study of entire minimal graphs in \(\mathbb{E}(\kappa,\tau)\) with \(\kappa<0\), for which sharper estimates are obtained by assuming restrictions on the height growth. This is a joint work with Barbara Nelli, which can be downloaded at http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.05239.